“The Ojai Music Festival announced Thursday that it can salvage its 75th anniversary event by postponing it from June until mid-September [for a] four-day celebration … with a live audience,” writes Jessica Gelt in Thursday’s (3/18) Los Angeles Times. “Last March, organizers canceled the festival…. The full lineup for the 75th anniversary festival, to open Sept. 16, has yet to be announced but it will feature debuts by Americana musician Rhiannon Giddens, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson and violinist Miranda Cuckson. The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s New Music Group will perform the world premiere of ‘Sunt Lacrimae Rerum’ (These Are the Tears of Things) by Dylan Mattingly. John Adams is serving as music director, and Are Guzelimian is artistic and executive director…. Ojai sits in Ventura County, which graduated with Los Angeles and Orange counties this week from the purple to the red tier in California’s color-coded classification system for the reopening of businesses and institutions. The state Department of Health’s recently released guidance, going into effect April 1, stipulates that outdoor live performances can take place at 20% audience capacity in the red tier … 33% in the orange tier [and] 67% when counties reach yellow.”
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